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re: The Battle of Mosul has begun - Peshmerga about 7km away from city
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:06 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:06 pm to GetCocky11
Aren't the "rebels" Isis?
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:07 pm to GetCocky11
Will turkey committ genocide again?
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:10 pm to GetCocky11
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I'd say that the Kurds are more than deserving of their own country.
Agree 100%. Those people have fought their asses off for us and we always leave them high and dry.
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Of course, Turkey's heads would explode over the formation of an independent Kurdistan.
After the recent coup, Turkey is a lost cause. I say we go ahead and do it as we can't count on Turkey to be any sort of ally.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:11 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
Weren't the Pesh the ones that were getting destroyed by ISIS about 3-4 months ago when the SEALs went in and bailed them out and one of the SEALs was killed?
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:18 pm to Paul Allen
Paul Allen = Biggest pussy on tigerdroppings
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:25 pm to Cosmo
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dont give a shite about this part of the world anymore
The Middle East is the "Simpsons" of global politics, it quit being interesting a decade ago but they'll keep making episodes long after we're all dead. But somehow it still feels important so I'll tune in every now and then.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:54 pm to SuperSaint
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I know I might be crazy, but if for some reason shite hit the fan in my life here and I could, I would be over there hand and hand with the Kurds.
Sure you would.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 4:58 pm to GetCocky11
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Of course, Turkey's heads would explode over the formation of an independent Kurdistan.
If that would literally happen, it's just another one in the pro column for Kurdistan.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 5:00 pm to GetCocky11
Beautiful photos and country. I'm sure the Pershmerga, Sunnis, Shiites, Shia, and other tribal religions will easily find common ground and work their differences out. It might take awhile for them to work those differences out but trust me if anyone can work on their differences it people in that region--the region of peace! 
Posted on 10/17/16 at 5:17 pm to lsucoonass
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Aren't the "rebels" Isis?
Many of the rebels are ISIS, but not all of them.
Today they are our friend, we train and arm them.
Tomorrow they are our enemy, killing our soldiers and the women and children of western Europe.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 5:18 pm to AZTarheeel
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Many of the rebels are ISIS, but not all of them.
Today they are our friend, we train and arm them.
Tomorrow they are our enemy, killing our soldiers and the women and children of western Europe.
You forgot to add "rinse and repeat"
Posted on 10/17/16 at 5:36 pm to GetCocky11
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 5:47 pm to TheIrishFro
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Obvious to everyone, Iraq cannot sustain its borders as it is with a democratic government. Saddam only kept it together through pure authoritarian crap. A Kurdistan is perfectly logical. But Turkey doesn't want the Kurds in its borders to get any ideas so they will oppose it. And we can't get on Turkey's bad side, we need their position for our military.
We can establish an international border and also establish conditions of independence and recognition by the UN. We're already on Turkey's bad side and they're pretty temperamental with our use of their country as a strategic location. Besides, with a new Kurdistan, we can move our bases out of Turkey and use Kurdistan as a strategic location.
Posted on 10/17/16 at 5:54 pm to upgrayedd
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Posted on 10/17/16 at 6:02 pm to TheIrishFro
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I like this, it just seems like in 30 years we'll be having the same problems with Kurdistan then.
Nah, the Kurds are legit. As much as we've screwed them over the years, they're still very loyal to us.
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Would we want to lose Turkey as an ally have them possibly buddy-buddy with Russia?
That's probably going to be an inevitability anyway. I think they'll be out of NATO one way or another in the next 5 years at the current pace.
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